Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 17 Jan 2008 05:51:10 +1030 | From | David Newall <> | Subject | Re: [RFC][PATCH] per-task I/O throttling |
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Andrea Righi wrote: > David Newall wrote: > >> Andrea Righi wrote: >> >>> [I/O-intensive] processes can noticeably impact the system responsiveness >>> for some time and playing with tasks' priority is not always an >>> acceptable solution. >>> >>> >> Why? >> >> > > Well, I mean, we can't use 'nice' to grant less priority for the I/O > intensive app, because the I/O intensive app itself doesn't need a lot > of CPU. Instead, the I/O-bound app eats all the available I/O bandwidth, > that's a different issue.
That's what I was thinking. Your original, "not always an acceptable solution," made me wonder if you were referring to something obscure.
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